cockles

基本解釋

On shore, clams and cockles sit in heaps before a long brick row of low fisherman’s homes, the doorposts pasted with bright paper charms.
在海岸邊，成堆的蚌和海貝堆砌在低矮的漁民家長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的磚墻前面，家門(mén)框貼著吸引人的亮色壁紙。
Then again, there's nothing like steam heat to warm the cockles of a spaceman's soul as he/she traverses the cold depths of interplanetary space.
當(dāng)宇航員在冰冷的星際空間漫游時(shí)，還有什么能比蒸汽更能溫暖他們的靈魂呢？
But just when I get crotchety enough to start shopping for a shawl and rocking chair, along comes what may be the one meme on Twitter that actually warms the cockles of my heart: Follow Friday.
然而當(dāng)我的脾氣古怪到開(kāi)始準(zhǔn)備購(gòu)買(mǎi)披肩和搖椅，這種時(shí)候也許Twitter上的一個(gè)小小的流行因子足以溫暖我內(nèi)心的波瀾：Follow Friday（星期五跟隨日）。

At first, the grey, austere Mr Jospin seemed scarcely more likely to warm the cockles.
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Tragically, picking cockles in Morecambe Bay, with its racing tides and quicksands, is also perilous.
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Raking and schlepping cockles is attritional work, but lucrative (for their bosses, if not for the Chinese).
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